Sentences with phrase «like digressions»

Besides Eisenberg's brilliant Peep Show - style voiceover and surreal / Scrubs / - like digressions, the cast (including Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin as a pair of con - artist sisters) are all accomplished funny people.

I like digression, poetic drifts, the ways that hints and silences can weave a story together.

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He doesn't do that, but He does provide evidences, but we must seek if we are to find truth) Anyway, what I was saying before the digression was, it can easily be argued that the Bible was simply a book set in a real place like the Ilead, but Joseph Smith could not have traveled back in time and given the Maya knowledge of Jesus.

While activities such as Grace's are relatively independent of Vatican policies — and hence this section could be seen as a digression from the author's theme — the Knights are headquartered in the Vatican and have connections with powerful members of the hierarchy like O'Connor and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.

I don't like to digress since I don't think we have exhausted the discussion on the subject matter; however, due to the heavy digression on this blog, I would like to address the following statement that has been presented here:

I would like to conclude this digression into the history of ideas with the following words which Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1888:

Most of the food I eat is raw, but amazing desserts like the Chez Panisse Almond Tart make me welcome the occasional digression... even if it's only a mouthwatering fantasy at this moment.

Along the way, we'll stop for frequent digressions into the larger world of New York politics, like our fastidiously overachieving mayor or our surfeit of presidential hopefuls.

Only some of these digressions are funny (like the way Laura Branigan's «Gloria» becomes Stant's personal soundtrack), but Gillespie mostly lands the film's tricky tonal balancing act, hitting nostalgic pleasure points throughout even when he's underlining or undermining the cruelty of Harding's victimization.

The premiere is so full of digressions that the plot eventually begins to feel like the real digression, yet by the end of it there's a clear structure in place for how David will be dealing with the Shadow King.

Yes, the amusing character dynamic between Arlo and the panting, lovably canine Spot works as it should, and director Peter Sohn does okay by the action while making room for left - field humor (like a brief hallucinogenic digression due to bad berries).

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

(Brief digression: If you liked her in Room, seize the earliest opportunity to see Short Term 12, one of the best small films of the last several years, featuring an absolutely stunning performance by the actress.

Take It Out In Trade plays like a cross between Russ Meyer and John Waters, full of digressions — at three separate points throughout the film, the main character takes himself on a «vacation» that consist of peeping at naked women through potted plants in front of posters for various far - flung locales — and extensive full - frontal nudity and simulated sex.

But it's telling that Suzuki's own brochure for the 1986 Samurai takes a digression from the marketing braggadocio («Would you like to go to the beach driving an irresistible bikini magnet?»)

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fact.

At other points it comes off like a hyperbolic and unfocused blog entry, with occasional moments of insight buried amid strange digressions about the glories of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, or how Eric Clapton's music is overrated.

Digression aside, games have taken great strides to cater to different kinds of people, much like other mediums expanded.

Digression is a common literary technique favored by authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, but outside of the last two entries in the Saints Row franchise (a series Chung name - dropped as keeping a surrealist streak alive in games), it's not something we see much of in either the AAA or indie - gaming space.

Oh, sure, there have been digressions like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, where decision points can change the final cutscene in a game, but in the actual moment - to - moment gameplay, you do the exact same thing, over and over and over again.

Like his films, he's always humming with ideas, digressions, impulses and jokes.

Greenberg couldn't really embrace Stella or later painters of the same stripe (so to speak) such as Sean Scully or less disciplined linear digressions like Brice Marden.

Seems like some snark is allowed, some gesture posts (Kim limericks), some digressions.

A quick digression on basic calculus for the many readers who don't like maths — just so you can see what I am getting at..

You say, «Indeed, nothing like a rambling 114 page digression on the taxies, walmart, the magna carta, international capitalism, prohibition and NDP health policy to really drill down on the issues around allowing law firms to adopt mainstream business structures.

Because line lawyers who started at law firms and who were brought in - house in order to oversee law firms are predisposed to treat ALSPs just like law firms (which, to return to the digression, is one reason why the law firm relationships are so hard to change; law firms do not have a monopoly on status quo bias).